[TheForge] DXF FILES

Thu May 9 21:45:01 2002

You said it, Ive built a plasma table and the hardest part of the whole job
is the software that runs it and getting a good dxf file to work in it. You
might be better off drawing your cutouts from scratch in a good cad program,
one main problem I had at the start was getting the order of the line
segments right, machine would cut this one then jump to the other side cut
another etc. Get a hold of vectorcam or vectorcad?? it shows each segment
cut direction and order although this is still hard to get right.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] DXF FILES

> You are experiencing the challenges we all face in this domain, EVEN
> using the expensive AutoCAD. AutoCAD LT has the capability to generate
> the dxfs, but some lasers can read them some can't. I have a friend who
> is a graphic designer and works in some wizbang graphics packages and
> they can save out files as pretty much anything you want. Perhaps if you
> were to enlist the aid of a graphic designer to computerize the images
> you desire to cut out.
>
> I have been considering the dive into graphics applications to help
> better represent my ideas to clients and then for those that require
> laser or water jet cutting the transfer to dxf should be seemless.
>
> My two cents.
>
> Ray
> Cincinnati
>
>
> Mike Wolfe wrote:
>
> >I am going to try this one more time...
> >
> >My plasma guy would like dxf files to input my line drawings to his
> >computer. I can scan my line drawings in photoshop and save them as
> >tiff's, then he has to go through a mess to convert them to dxf or
> >"vector"
> >I would love to be able to give him a dxf file.
> >At on time I received a coral draw file via e-mail and then was able to
> >open it and resave it in the coral dxf. then I gave it to a laser guy
> >who was able to open it and use it.
> >I can open my tiff in coral and look at it and then save it , but the
> >plasma guys can not open it.. Something in there program dislikes
> >coral's dxf.
> >
> >Is there any other program that I can use to convert the tiff to a dxf..
> >
> >Something at reasonable price not at auto cad program prices...
> >
> >An I not understanding the conversion process, is  the process of taking
> >a raster line drawing and converting it to a vector drawing is far more
> >complicated then I think????
> >Mike Wolfe
> >
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